Norah grinned at the older girl's excited reply. Sitting up on her knees in order to see better, she strained her ears to hear Marigold's reply over the chatter echoing in the Great Hall. Raising her eyebrows slightly, she was mildly taken aback by the girl's answer to her question. Not a good year? But it was Hogwarts! Sure it had been bloody freezing cold and stuff, but that sounded a little extreme. Not wanting to pry, Norah concentrated instead on Marigold's next question. "Term was...cold," she began, but while that was true, it didn't seem to do justice to the entire term, so she continued, "but it was so much fun! All the classes were supermegacrazycool, except for Arithmancy but numbers are just hard..." Noticing she had begun to shout, Norah trailed off and instead channeled her energy into more bouncing. "I can't wait to tell my little brothers all about it! They're going to be so jealous. I just wish I could do magic at home." She stuck out her bottom lift and blew a tuft of hair from her eyes, taking a moment to protest the TOTAL unfairness of that rule before smiling at Marigold again. "What are your plans for the summer?"



Norah gave the girl who called herself Hazel a wide smile, and extended a hand for her to shake, because manners duh. "Hi Hazel! I'm Norah, soon-to-be second year." She was NOT an ickle firstie anymore, so ha. She gave an extra large bounce at Hazel's mention of summer, because if that wasn't exciting she didn't know what was, and pushed a stray curl that had landed in front of her eyes away before answering. "Definitely! Not that I didn't LOVE Hogwarts, but y'know...it'd be nice to be able to leave the building without my ears freezing off or anything." She grinned at Hazel and asked, "How about you? Are you doing anything fun this summer?"